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Chicago examiner vol x no 104 a m saturday saturday rtjlstert ln pr tpp onf ffnt dhivwed by cu-rltr u s p.tent ottic rvi , i wte i __ cents per m â€ž.Â«,. Chicago april 20 1912 20 pages doomed passengers searched decks in vain for more lifeboats ismay tries to smuggle titanics crew out of the country frozen atlantic rrom photos taken by operator ourg of la bretagne ten hours before titanic struck progressives reject gang plea two lists of delegates named failing to bring about com promise the sullivanites select their own slate adopt harmony platform hakmonv delegates at large carter h harrison henry t kainey judge john e owens owen p thomp son a m lawrence 3 m gray a e isley walter watson scm.ivan delegates at large roger c sullivan elmore w hurst fred j kern george w fithian harry m plndell ira x wheeler free p mor ris james r williams john m mcgil lÂ«n robert m sweitzer robert hnnt b f weber william b schofleld samuel alschuler b f caldwell w b brinten halt a vote each peoria lu april 19 whether the harmony democrats of Illinois shall con trol the delegation to the baltimore na tional convention or whether sullivan dis credited every place else shall be recog nized there will be left to the national convention itself two peoria conventions were held to-day both indorsed champ clark for president both present the same platform the sulli van crowd adopting the harmony men's stand for principles after the progressives had rejected the gang's proposals for a compromise â€” that is a surrender e f dunne as nominee for governor made he same speech at both conventions larmony has 684 regular delegates the harmony democrats sitting at the rink auditorium claimed they had a total representation of 684 regular delegates in their convention the 4fti regular delegates from Chicago and 2so from downstate henry t rainey presided at that con vention which elected twenty delegates to the national convention for the cook onty districts two delegates from the twentieth district and eight delegates at large and indorsed twenty-eight delegates chosen by the caucuses of fourteen other downstate districts making a full delega mayor explains his sullivan ultimatum ? d eoria april 19 mayor har i > m rison made the following ? \ statement to-night > i onr ultimatum to sullivan was that ) 5 we would not permit bis credentials c c committee which he already had named s sand parked to deride the contests of i this eight adherents against onr presi \ s dential delegates-at-large and onr ten i ? presidential delegates from the ten '! \ congressional districts of cook county !' > we were willing to let the down-state ' < presidential delegates remain as they ! ' > were selected by the fifteen down-state ' | < congressional districts but we insisted ', ' s that we had carried cook connty by an i indisputable majority of the legally j 5 elected precinct committee men and that i c we wonld not compromise on that mat s ter ? what onr convention did was the s same as what we offered to sullivan ) we selected only the presidential dele s gates at large with alternates and the ; delegate from the cook county dis i tricts with alternates we let the j down-state congressional conventions i select their own district delegates s thus we showed that even though ( sullivan would not be jnst to ns we ) were jnst to him and his down-state < presidential delegates are the same as s ours ) i want to repeat my statement ts \ sned late last night which is that the j action of sullivan's state committee in \ temporarily seating all his contested > delegates to pass on their own contests i with our delegates was outrageous it ; meant that the members of a state (_ central committee which is two years i old and defunct took it on themselves to nullify jhe primary law of the state of Illinois in other words these twen \ ty sullivan men who were voted out ' of office on april .. 1913 perpetuate | their power over the acts of their sue < cessors chosen as a result of the recent ; primary election c the sullivan gas machine imply i makes a farce of the primary law ln j this respect and insofar as presi j dential elections are concerned the illi j nois prims'ry law will remain a farce ln the hands of bosses unless it la j radically amended mrs astor risked life for others gave shawl to poor woman's bahe she's bravest woman i ever -â– saw and her husband was a man clear through says sailor who rowed boat new york april 19,-boat no 4 of the titanic containing mrs john jacob astor was about 100 yards from the li.ier when it came close to an overturned life boat to which nine or ten men were clinging almost exhausted and chilled to the bone in desperation several of the men loosened their hold on the overturned boat and swam to the other boat and grasped the edges which were close to the water the men pleaded pathetically to be taken in don't take them in shouted on-.e one this boat ls too full already mrs astor who p to this time . had not spoken since the boat was launched cried out to seaman jack foley who was facing her rowing take tbem in - they have aa mach right to life as we hare we can make room for them please sir take them in .*--.. jack foley turned to - his mate . sam perks who had the oar behind him and looked interrogatively at him parks nodded eight half frozen men were taken into the already crowded boat " mrs astor thanked foley and parks and tl-e rescued then chattered their apprecia tion astor a man all through jack foley was a storekeeper ou the titanic and parks was quartermaster they were the men selected to man the boat containing mrs astor in talking about the affair teara welled into foley's eyes as he recounted the experiences of his boat load he said mrs astor is the bravest little woman i ever met and her husband was a man all through if there ever was oue you see it took us some time to launch boat no 4 after we had all the women and the chil dren ln the boat we discovered that we couldn't launch her until we removed the sonnding spar several decks below bo sam and i got down and chopped the sphr away we were some time doing this as we had to hnnt'-for an ax we anally got the spar away and launched j^boat that is why boat no 4 was th^btaeat to be launched the others had a free way below and could he put ln the water ai once - while waiting up there mrs astor sev eral times wanted to get ont of the boat colonel a3tor kept telling the little wom an that he was sure to de saved and that it was her duty to go she stretched out her arms just as though she was pleading with him to let her get out of the boat and take her place with him mr astor picked up a heavy steamer shawl and wrapped it about hei shoulders after pulling those eight men into the boat i was pretty wet and shivering mrs astor threw the same shawl scout my shoulders and said that i needed lt more than she did i told her that i would get warmed up after pulling a while at the oar and would have no use for lt steerage woman tries to cheer her i pnt the shawl back on her lap sit ting next to mrs astor was a swedish woman with a little three-year-old glrl the little girl was whimpering with the cold mrs.^a-tor took the shawl and threw l_j the shoulders of this woman â– oer ln tome foreign li-cn.l woman kissed eight musicians marched on deck and to time of lead er's baton played the last hymn of their lives her little girl and took her into her arms and wrapped the shawl about her when the explosion occurred aboard the titanic mrs astor made some kind of a sound but i couldn't understand whether she said anything or merely sobbfed she turned her head away from the direction of the ve-isel when the ship went down and that awful moan was heard she didn't say anything but she covered her face with her hand the steerage woman who sat beside her tried to cheer her up i never saw her after she was taken aboard the carpathia one of the men we took from the up turned boat died before we were saved by the carpathia some one wanted to throw the body overboard but mrs astor shook her head at me we kept the body aboard the vessel the women ln the boat seemed to all be interested in mrs astor it wasn't be cause she was rich that didn't count away tip there in the ice floes i heard one woman whisper to another woman and point to mrs astor when she had her face covered with her hands officials of company put the number of saved at 705 new york april 19 â€” the j \ total of the titanic's survivors was i i officially placed at 705 by w w i } jeffries general passenger agent of f ) the white star line to-day he > s accepts the statement of the car s < pathia as to the number of the sup i < vivors giving them by cabins as < ? follows j ( first-class 202 i ) second-class 115 ? ) third-class 178 s s crew 206 s i officers 4 < / total . 705 > c he made no statement as to the ) ) number of those who perished but ) | his estimate is 1,595 based on ca s s blegrams from london giving the < < number on the ship's lists with i \ such additions and deductions as ? . were caused by last minute book > ? ings and cancellations 5 bandsmen gathered on deck played hymn as death drew near new york april 19 the names of six englishmen a german and a french man go down upon the first roll of honor in the titanic tragedy krins clark hume brailey taylor breicoux wooward hartley in the list of second enhln passengers on the titanic the names of the eight are linked under the title of bandsmen when the last faint hope was gone the eight musicians . ined up von deck then solemnly and quietly the leader waved his baton hands flew to instruments and over tho lee laden wkter floated the strains of one of the lro'st sadly l.-sutlful hymns ever written it was nearer my god to thee te their playing more than i.lteen hun dred gou.s pawed from life , _ . wireless messages in code asked cedric to wait for sailors get them out of new york ordered white star dictator senate investi gators force is may and his men to remain within their jurisdiction new york april 19 new tales of cool heroism of wonderful faithful . ness and devotion were told to-day to enhance the grandeur of the titanic wreck and there were other tales to keep bright a burning flame of indignation against officials of the white star line and par ticularly against j bruce ismay managing director of that line in the meantime the united states senate committee which is investi gating the disaster began its session at the waldorf-astoria senator wii , liam alden smith of michigan and senator henry newlands of nevada heard from mr ismay his version of the sinking and from captain rostron of the carpathia the part his vessel played in the sea tragedy the seriousness of this inquiry was disclosed late to-night when sena tor smith acting as chairman of the committee at first flatly refused to let any of the officers or the 200-odd members of the crew of the sunken steamship get beyond the jurisdiction of the united states government the men were all to have sailed sunday on the red star liner lapland it was afterward settled that the greater part of the crew would be per mitted to sail on the steamer but that the twelve men and four officers among the survivors now under subpoena together with j bruce ismay would not be permitted to depart 210 out of 70s survivors members of crew the following are important and some of them are significant develop ments of to-day in connection with the disaster apart from the beginning of the senatorial investigation â– a two hundred and ten of the 705 survivors were members of the crew of m the titanic it was established that eighty-six men were amply sufficient jm to man the lifeboats <. . . . . fifteen women in the first cabin perished the carpathia brought in twenty widowed brides who were on their honeymoons when the ship went down j survivors said that the conduct of some of the crew in the lifeboats was brutal j major arohlbald butt jacques futrelle colonel astor and others were praised again and again for their bravery butt armed with an iron bar - held back the rush of steerage men and let the poor women and children up to the boats the last words of benja-bin^kaenhelm his dying message to bit â– wl fe^-v ore brought to her f ftr<l _\ a?ll her lolaved the f tjand woman 1 continued on sth page 1 s^m b ~Â£^____*___ oaruruay nu prouauiy ounuay wi.n â€¢ rs_l somewhat higher temperature mod f xl33 erate southerly winds vi'q range of temperatures yesterday fm highest 45 wr jv jl sk lowest 37 r i * average 41 .

Chicago examiner vol x no 104 a m saturday saturday rtjlstert ln pr tpp onf ffnt dhivwed by cu-rltr u s p.tent ottic rvi , i wte i __ cents per m â€ž.Â«,. Chicago april 20 1912 20 pages doomed passengers searched decks in vain for more lifeboats ismay tries to smuggle titanics crew out of the country frozen atlantic rrom photos taken by operator ourg of la bretagne ten hours before titanic struck progressives reject gang plea two lists of delegates named failing to bring about com promise the sullivanites select their own slate adopt harmony platform hakmonv delegates at large carter h harrison henry t kainey judge john e owens owen p thomp son a m lawrence 3 m gray a e isley walter watson scm.ivan delegates at large roger c sullivan elmore w hurst fred j kern george w fithian harry m plndell ira x wheeler free p mor ris james r williams john m mcgil lÂ«n robert m sweitzer robert hnnt b f weber william b schofleld samuel alschuler b f caldwell w b brinten halt a vote each peoria lu april 19 whether the harmony democrats of Illinois shall con trol the delegation to the baltimore na tional convention or whether sullivan dis credited every place else shall be recog nized there will be left to the national convention itself two peoria conventions were held to-day both indorsed champ clark for president both present the same platform the sulli van crowd adopting the harmony men's stand for principles after the progressives had rejected the gang's proposals for a compromise â€” that is a surrender e f dunne as nominee for governor made he same speech at both conventions larmony has 684 regular delegates the harmony democrats sitting at the rink auditorium claimed they had a total representation of 684 regular delegates in their convention the 4fti regular delegates from Chicago and 2so from downstate henry t rainey presided at that con vention which elected twenty delegates to the national convention for the cook onty districts two delegates from the twentieth district and eight delegates at large and indorsed twenty-eight delegates chosen by the caucuses of fourteen other downstate districts making a full delega mayor explains his sullivan ultimatum ? d eoria april 19 mayor har i > m rison made the following ? \ statement to-night > i onr ultimatum to sullivan was that ) 5 we would not permit bis credentials c c committee which he already had named s sand parked to deride the contests of i this eight adherents against onr presi \ s dential delegates-at-large and onr ten i ? presidential delegates from the ten '! \ congressional districts of cook county !' > we were willing to let the down-state ' < presidential delegates remain as they ! ' > were selected by the fifteen down-state ' | < congressional districts but we insisted ', ' s that we had carried cook connty by an i indisputable majority of the legally j 5 elected precinct committee men and that i c we wonld not compromise on that mat s ter ? what onr convention did was the s same as what we offered to sullivan ) we selected only the presidential dele s gates at large with alternates and the ; delegate from the cook county dis i tricts with alternates we let the j down-state congressional conventions i select their own district delegates s thus we showed that even though ( sullivan would not be jnst to ns we ) were jnst to him and his down-state < presidential delegates are the same as s ours ) i want to repeat my statement ts \ sned late last night which is that the j action of sullivan's state committee in \ temporarily seating all his contested > delegates to pass on their own contests i with our delegates was outrageous it ; meant that the members of a state (_ central committee which is two years i old and defunct took it on themselves to nullify jhe primary law of the state of Illinois in other words these twen \ ty sullivan men who were voted out ' of office on april .. 1913 perpetuate | their power over the acts of their sue < cessors chosen as a result of the recent ; primary election c the sullivan gas machine imply i makes a farce of the primary law ln j this respect and insofar as presi j dential elections are concerned the illi j nois prims'ry law will remain a farce ln the hands of bosses unless it la j radically amended mrs astor risked life for others gave shawl to poor woman's bahe she's bravest woman i ever -â– saw and her husband was a man clear through says sailor who rowed boat new york april 19,-boat no 4 of the titanic containing mrs john jacob astor was about 100 yards from the li.ier when it came close to an overturned life boat to which nine or ten men were clinging almost exhausted and chilled to the bone in desperation several of the men loosened their hold on the overturned boat and swam to the other boat and grasped the edges which were close to the water the men pleaded pathetically to be taken in don't take them in shouted on-.e one this boat ls too full already mrs astor who p to this time . had not spoken since the boat was launched cried out to seaman jack foley who was facing her rowing take tbem in - they have aa mach right to life as we hare we can make room for them please sir take them in .*--.. jack foley turned to - his mate . sam perks who had the oar behind him and looked interrogatively at him parks nodded eight half frozen men were taken into the already crowded boat " mrs astor thanked foley and parks and tl-e rescued then chattered their apprecia tion astor a man all through jack foley was a storekeeper ou the titanic and parks was quartermaster they were the men selected to man the boat containing mrs astor in talking about the affair teara welled into foley's eyes as he recounted the experiences of his boat load he said mrs astor is the bravest little woman i ever met and her husband was a man all through if there ever was oue you see it took us some time to launch boat no 4 after we had all the women and the chil dren ln the boat we discovered that we couldn't launch her until we removed the sonnding spar several decks below bo sam and i got down and chopped the sphr away we were some time doing this as we had to hnnt'-for an ax we anally got the spar away and launched j^boat that is why boat no 4 was th^btaeat to be launched the others had a free way below and could he put ln the water ai once - while waiting up there mrs astor sev eral times wanted to get ont of the boat colonel a3tor kept telling the little wom an that he was sure to de saved and that it was her duty to go she stretched out her arms just as though she was pleading with him to let her get out of the boat and take her place with him mr astor picked up a heavy steamer shawl and wrapped it about hei shoulders after pulling those eight men into the boat i was pretty wet and shivering mrs astor threw the same shawl scout my shoulders and said that i needed lt more than she did i told her that i would get warmed up after pulling a while at the oar and would have no use for lt steerage woman tries to cheer her i pnt the shawl back on her lap sit ting next to mrs astor was a swedish woman with a little three-year-old glrl the little girl was whimpering with the cold mrs.^a-tor took the shawl and threw l_j the shoulders of this woman â– oer ln tome foreign li-cn.l woman kissed eight musicians marched on deck and to time of lead er's baton played the last hymn of their lives her little girl and took her into her arms and wrapped the shawl about her when the explosion occurred aboard the titanic mrs astor made some kind of a sound but i couldn't understand whether she said anything or merely sobbfed she turned her head away from the direction of the ve-isel when the ship went down and that awful moan was heard she didn't say anything but she covered her face with her hand the steerage woman who sat beside her tried to cheer her up i never saw her after she was taken aboard the carpathia one of the men we took from the up turned boat died before we were saved by the carpathia some one wanted to throw the body overboard but mrs astor shook her head at me we kept the body aboard the vessel the women ln the boat seemed to all be interested in mrs astor it wasn't be cause she was rich that didn't count away tip there in the ice floes i heard one woman whisper to another woman and point to mrs astor when she had her face covered with her hands officials of company put the number of saved at 705 new york april 19 â€” the j \ total of the titanic's survivors was i i officially placed at 705 by w w i } jeffries general passenger agent of f ) the white star line to-day he > s accepts the statement of the car s < pathia as to the number of the sup i < vivors giving them by cabins as < ? follows j ( first-class 202 i ) second-class 115 ? ) third-class 178 s s crew 206 s i officers 4 < / total . 705 > c he made no statement as to the ) ) number of those who perished but ) | his estimate is 1,595 based on ca s s blegrams from london giving the < < number on the ship's lists with i \ such additions and deductions as ? . were caused by last minute book > ? ings and cancellations 5 bandsmen gathered on deck played hymn as death drew near new york april 19 the names of six englishmen a german and a french man go down upon the first roll of honor in the titanic tragedy krins clark hume brailey taylor breicoux wooward hartley in the list of second enhln passengers on the titanic the names of the eight are linked under the title of bandsmen when the last faint hope was gone the eight musicians . ined up von deck then solemnly and quietly the leader waved his baton hands flew to instruments and over tho lee laden wkter floated the strains of one of the lro'st sadly l.-sutlful hymns ever written it was nearer my god to thee te their playing more than i.lteen hun dred gou.s pawed from life , _ . wireless messages in code asked cedric to wait for sailors get them out of new york ordered white star dictator senate investi gators force is may and his men to remain within their jurisdiction new york april 19 new tales of cool heroism of wonderful faithful . ness and devotion were told to-day to enhance the grandeur of the titanic wreck and there were other tales to keep bright a burning flame of indignation against officials of the white star line and par ticularly against j bruce ismay managing director of that line in the meantime the united states senate committee which is investi gating the disaster began its session at the waldorf-astoria senator wii , liam alden smith of michigan and senator henry newlands of nevada heard from mr ismay his version of the sinking and from captain rostron of the carpathia the part his vessel played in the sea tragedy the seriousness of this inquiry was disclosed late to-night when sena tor smith acting as chairman of the committee at first flatly refused to let any of the officers or the 200-odd members of the crew of the sunken steamship get beyond the jurisdiction of the united states government the men were all to have sailed sunday on the red star liner lapland it was afterward settled that the greater part of the crew would be per mitted to sail on the steamer but that the twelve men and four officers among the survivors now under subpoena together with j bruce ismay would not be permitted to depart 210 out of 70s survivors members of crew the following are important and some of them are significant develop ments of to-day in connection with the disaster apart from the beginning of the senatorial investigation â– a two hundred and ten of the 705 survivors were members of the crew of m the titanic it was established that eighty-six men were amply sufficient jm to man the lifeboats